Transcript DSpace as a Preservation Platform

DSpace as a
Preservation Platform
Mark Jordan, SFU Library
Vancouver Digital Archives Group
2005-09-15
Overview
Institutional Repositories
 SFU’s IR
 DSpace as a preservation platform
 Demonstration
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What are Institutional
Repositories?
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Provide ongoing access to an institution’s
scholarly output
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Contrasted with learning object repositories
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Articles, working papers, books, theses, data
sets, computer programs…
http://www.merlot.org/
Contrasted with disciplinary archives
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http://arXiv.org
Attributes of IRs
Institution-based
 Open access
 Managed by libraries and
communities within institution
 Interoperable, standards-based
 Variety of content
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Brief history of IRs
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Eprints archives
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Example:arXiv (high energy physics
archive)
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and
Academic Resources Coalition)
position paper
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Growth of Institutional
Repositories
Source:
Institutional
Archives
Registry
The CARL project
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Canadian Association of Research Libraries
7 mainstreamed IRs
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University of Calgary
Université Laval
Université de Montreal
Simon Fraser University
University of Toronto
University of Waterloo
University of Winnipeg
7 pilot projects
8 more in the planning phase
The CARL project: content
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Journal articles
Learning objects
Theses and dissertations
Journal issues
Photographs
Images
Conference papers
Music scores
Data sets
SFU’s repository
Community
Documents
Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing
4
Simon Fraser University Library
16
DiGRA 2005
101
Simon Fraser University Linguistics
Graduate Student Association
7
Simon Fraser University Theses
230
SSHRC-Funded Projects
1
SFU: activities
Every semester we will be adding
more than 120 theses or graduate
projects
 Library staff papers and Library events
 Conferences at SFU
 SFU’s 40th Anniversary
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SFU: use (April 2005)
Downloads: average of almost 80
documents/day
 Searches: average of just under 3.5
searches per day
 Browsing: not used very much
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How Do IRs preserve
scholarship?
They don’t, without support from the
institution
 They do make scholarship more
accessible
 IR service must be accompanied by
sensible preservation strategies
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DSpace as a preservation
platform
Was designed to be OAIS compliant
 Includes preservation tools
 Is being used as a testbed for
preservation strategies
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DSpace and OAIS
DSpace is intended to comply with
OAIS Reference Model
 Provides SIP, AIP, and DIP functions
but these are still evolving
 Moving to use METS as AIP container
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Source: Robert Tansley et al, “DSpace as an Open Archival Information System: Current
Status and Future Directions”, European Digital Library Conference 2003,
http://www.ecdl2003.org/presentations/papers/session11b/Tansley/dspace-ecdl2003.ppt
DSpace’s OAIS SIPs
INGEST PROCESS
External SIP
Batch Item
Importer
DSpace SIP
Item Installer
Web Submit
UI
Workflow
Tansley et al, slide 25
Archived Item
(AIP)
DSpace’s tools
“Supported formats”
 Checksum generator
 METS output
 Media filters
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Research / implementation
Robert Tansley
 Robert Fox
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Developing a METS application profile
as part of DSpace SIPs
Jim Downing
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“DSpace Digitial Preservation
Automation”
Demonstration
From user’s point of view
 From submitter’s point of view
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